RE: Partition questions

Our wonderful Oracle salesentity (hate to deem him a "person") knew we
needed Partitioning, sold our CTO on it as one of the major reasons to go
with Oracle, and NEVER mentioned that it cost extra. I'll tell you, it was
an unwelcome surprise when I had to break the news that it was an "Option".
Ouch.

Anyway, to answer the original questions:

1) We use range
2) Never happens in our case
3) Absolutely (but then again, as it was designed to use partitioning, I

never really compared)
4) Simpler, believe it or not (requirement to backup/restore/move account's
information MUCH easier)
5) No choice in the matter

I appear to have been under a misapprehension about that, and I know of some
customers in Sydney who are using it under the same misapprehension - an
expensive mistake at that price! Thanks for the correction.